I'm so proud!!!

Today, my little girl graduated from The Police Academy! I was so disappointed in the way my camera acted..lagging and blurry pics. Maybe because I had the flash turned off.

A photo of Jenn taken during the academy.

So, here are some pics I got today at the graduation.

Jenn walking up to receive her certificate.

Jenn accepting her certificate (yes, that's Paul's head). LOL

Jenn receives the Driving Ace Award from the parents of fallen Officer Jimmy Kerstetter of Elyria. 

Jenn with her proud parents :)

Jenn with her proud fiance. 

My baby girl all grown up! 

December Project Life

Well after working on it diligently for a couple of days, at least I got all the pics I wanted into December's PL. I didn't embellish it like I wanted to but I still have November to do and journaling for several months.

 It's okay though, I'm not going to stress over it. I want to work on my title page for January but that's going to take a back seat to packing :(

Goodbye letter to Elvie

I know some you have the Elf on the Shelf and I thought this goodbye letter my son made for his kids was way cute!

A bit of this and a bit of that...

I'm not as far along as I'd like to be in my Christmas preparations. I just realized that today but Paul and I went out and got most of the shopping done. I still have stocking stuffers to buy and wrapping to do. I do plan on baking some before Tuesday. One of the things are this scrumptious looking cookies...

 

Peppermint White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Another is this mouth watering Pumpkin Roll Cake...
 

 Pumpkin Roll Cake

So, I finished a fingerless glove. Notice I say "a" fingerless glove. I now know why knitters have found it more productive to knit two gloves or socks at a time. I'm almost done with a gift I'm knitting for a Christmas present and then I'll make a match to my glove here. I added some beads in a heart pattern which I really love...

So, as always....

A sad farewell.

It saddens me to say that my dear friend Carol Krasin passed away early this morning on her 65th birthday.

I will miss her. I will miss the days we would go to Lenny's Deli for a grilled cheese and I always got an iced tea and she a Coke. I miss the day's when I worked at the office with her and EVERY morning she came in and said "Hey you." We'd share a laugh or some gossip or family drama. She was an awesome real estate agent. She LOVED her clients like they were family. She was always looking out for them, never the sale or the listing but the client. They came first.
She was the person I learned to knit with. We took a knitting class at the shop "Birds of a Feather" in Avon and we just knew we were the only ladies that didn't actually know how to knit LOL! But we learned and we loved going to yarn shops together. We were both so sad when The Knitting Garden closed their doors.

She was the person I saw Titanic with along with other movies, she loved going to the movies! 
Here I am a scrapbooker, a memory keeper, a photo fanatic and I don't have one picture of the two of us together. Shame on me! I will always regret that. Now I'll probably bug the crap out of all my family and friends to stand next to me while I get someone (anyone) to take our picture! That's what photos are for...MEMORIES! I actually went to her Facebook page and copied pics to post on here, how sad is that?

Anyway, I'm going to go have another cry now. My prayers and thoughts are with her beautiful family.
She will truly be missed. Rest in peace my friend, rest in peace. xoxox